March 2023 Healthy News from Vancouver Disc Centers Failed Back Surgery Back Pain Relief with Gentle Spinal Manipulation Take Your Vitamin D!

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FAILED BACK SURGERY BACK PAIN RELIEF

Gentle spinal manipulation for back pain that lingers or comes back after back surgery - sometimes called persistent post-surgical pain or post-surgical continued pain - is proving effective. And Cox® Technic as used at our Vancouver chiropractic clinic is getting noticed for its pain-relieving outcomes! So have you undergone back surgery? Do you still suffer with back pain…or has it returned? You are not alone, especially in wanting the pain gone. Some will opt for more medical options like surgery or pain meds or physical therapy, etc. Others will try to find non-medical options like spinal manipulation. A new meta-analysis of published data on the kinds of spinal manipulation applied to treat back pain patients with persistent spine pain after lumbar surgery reported that spinal manipulation practitioners elected to use potentially gentler non-thrust techniques – 85% chose flexion-distraction (aka Cox® Technic) – instead of thrust techniques. (1) A published study of 69 post-surgical patients treated with Cox® Technic recorded that in 11 visits over a 49 day treatment period 81% of the patients attained more than 50% relief of pain. The mean percent of relief was 71.6% at the end of care and 70% at 2-year-follow-up. The relief lasted! (2) The frustration of back pain is understandable. The frustration of back pain after back surgery that was hoped to get rid of it is even more frustrating. Vancouver Disc Centers extends Cox® Technic to decrease the pain…and the frustration!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Gary Stefanick on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the help his patient got with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

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TIP OF THE MONTH: Another Reason to Be Up on Your Vitamin D! LBP And Disc Degeneration

Higher vitamin D levels were documented to be linked with better physical performance in low back pain (LBP) sufferers with lumbar disc degeneration (LDD). Researchers analyzed vitamin D levels and muscle strength in 200 participants. It took more time for those who had low levels of vitamin D to perform these tests: gait speed, chair stand, and timed-up-and-go (TUG) tests. (3) Postmenopausal women with vitamin D deficiency (especially those with below 10 ng/mL which indicated severe LDD and LBP) are noted to have LBP and LDD. If they smoked, had a high body mass index, osteoporosis, and no D supplementation, the moderate to severe pain was worse. (4) Another report stated that frailty status and physical performance measures (gait speed and TUG) were significantly associated with vitamin D concentration. (5) Vancouver Disc Centers asks: How’s your vitamin D level? Time to check it!

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